[BECKFORD, William.]

Vathek, conte arabe.

Paris, Chez Poinçot ... 1787.

First Paris edition of Beckford’s Gothic...

£3250

[GIRALDI, Giovanni Battista.]

Giuditio sopra la tragedia di Canace et...

(Colophon:) Lucca, Vincenzo Busdraghi,...

First edition of this criticism, in the...

£650

ROTH, Henry.

Call it Sleep.

London, Michael Joseph, 1963.

First UK edition of Roth’s precocious...

£250

[JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.]

The Boke of Justices of Peas the Charge...

...

First edition(?), very rare, of the first...

£27500

[CARTOUCHE.]

The Life and Actions of Lewis Dominique...

London, printed for J. Roberts … 1722.

First edition in English, published in...

£1750

CHALKHILL, John.

Thealma and Clearchus. A pastoral History...

London, Printed for Benj. Tooke … 1683.

First edition of Chalkhill’s unfinished...

£1850

[CHAPBOOK.]

Narrow Escape from the Punishment of Death,...

London: Printed by Augustus Applegath...

An uncommon early chapbook from the press...

£225

COUPÉ, Jacques-Michel.

De la moralité des sépultures et de leur...

Paris, Calixte Vollant, an IX [1800–1801].

A scarce and most interesting pamphlet...

£475

[DEATH CERTIFICATES.]

Certificates recording the deaths of three...

Rome, 1762–1819.

An interesting set of death certificates...

£750

[FRANKLAND, William.]

A large collection of manuscript correspondence...

[Manchester, Slaidburn, and Blackburn,...

An interesting archive relating to the...

£650

[FUNERAL NOTICE.]

[Incipit:] On recommande à vos...

[Liège,] L. Devillers, [1796].

A strikingly printed broadside funeral...

£1850

[GAVARD, Franz.]

‘Ritratto di Francesco Gavard Tedesco,...

Rome, ‘si stampeno [sic] incontro il...

Seemingly unrecorded popular engraving...

£350

GRÜNEISEN, [Karl].

Niclaus Manuel: Leben und Werke eines Malers...

Stuttgart & Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1837.

First and only edition of the first separate...

£120

HEINSIUS, Daniel.

Poematum editio nova; accedunt praeter...

Leiden, [Isaac] Elzevir and Jean Maire, 1621.

First Elzevir edition of the poems of Daniel...

£800

HOGG, James.

The Pilgrims of the Sun; a Poem …

London, John Murray, and Edinburgh, William...

First edition, first issue, of a long poem...

£200

HOLBEIN, Hans; Wenceslaus HOLLAR, engraver; [Francis DOUCE, editor].

The Dance of Death, from the original Designs...

[McMillan] for J. Coxhead, 1816.

An attractive early nineteenth-century...

£375

[HÖSS,] Maria Crescentia, Saint.

‘Wahre Abbildung der From[m]en Schwester...

Jahr ihres Alters.’ Mindelheim, Lingauer,...

Extremely rare devotional engraving of...

£750

[MILAN – DEATH DUTIES.]

[Incipit:] Ad un reale dispaccio...

Milan, Pirola brothers, [31 October 1787].

Scarce edict issued by Ferdinand Karl,...

£500

[NOVARA.]

[Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara...

[Novara], 10 May 1805.

An apparently unrecorded broadside from...

£175

[NUNS.]

[Incipit:] Illustrissimi Sigg. Sigg....

Florence, 20 March 1784.

Extremely rare broadside confirming the...

£450